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[News] Document Freedom Day Approaches, Data Set Free in Wikipedia, Gutenberg

  • Subject: [News] Document Freedom Day Approaches, Data Set Free in Wikipedia, Gutenberg
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:35:24 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Introducing Document Freedom Day

,----[ Quote ]
| The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with 
| grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards 
| in general. The DFD was initiated and is supported by a group of 
| organisations and companies, including, but not limited to the Free Software 
| Foundation Europe, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, IBM, Red Hat and Sun 
| Microsystems, Inc.     
`----

http://documentfreedom.org/News/20080220

Impossible thing #2: Comprehensive free knowledge repositories like Wikipedia
and Project Gutenberg

,----[ Quote ]
| The size of Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg present serious challenges to our 
| understanding and to the relative scales of these works compared to the great 
| works of individuals, corporations, governments. As a means of grounding our 
| perception in reality, it is useful to construct a logarithmic chart, 
| spanning many orders of magnitude.     
`----

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/impossible_thing_2_comprehensive_free_knowledge_repositories_wikipedia_and_project_gutenberg


Related:

Academia's Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community

,----[ Quote ]
| Free and open source software (FOSS) has roots in the ideals of academic 
| freedom and the unimpeded exchange of information. In the last five years, 
| the concepts have come full circle, with FOSS serving as a model for Open 
| Access (OA), a movement within academia to promote unrestricted access to 
| scholarly material for both researchers and the general public.    
`----

http://www.linux.com/feature/118139


Harvard Research to Be Free Online

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| Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by 
| its faculty on the Internet free of charge. 
`----

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


UN University Launches OpenCourseWare

,----[ Quote ]
| It seems a no-brainer that the United Nations University (yes, it exists) 
| should make available its courses for the world and her dog to use... 
`----

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/un-university-launches-opencourseware.html


OA and universities as intellectual infrastructure

,----[ Quote ]
| Gavin Baker, Free Culture and the University: Innovation, Information 
| Sharing, and the Future of the Academy, a presentation at Knowledge Rights 
| and Information Sharing in the 21st Century (University of Central Florida, 
| January 30 - February 1, 2008). Excerpt from slides:   
| 
| [...]
| 
| The Free University
| 
|     * Open access to research publications & proceedings
|     * Open access to research data
|     * Open educational resources
|     * Free & open source software
`----

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/02/oa-and-universities-as-intellectual.html


Related:

Universities Worldwide Offer Free Open Courseware

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| More than 100 universities worldwide - including Johns Hopkins, Tufts and 
| Notre Dame - have joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a 
| consortium of schools promoting open courseware.  
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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009575178


MIT digitizes its courses, throws them online

,----[ Quote ]
| MIT this week announced an important digital achievement: the completion of 
| its pioneering OpenCourseWare project. And everyone involved seems quite 
| happy with being unsure about why exactly it's important.   
`----

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/112907-mit-digitizes-courses.html


MIT OpenCourseWare expands for high school students

,----[ Quote ]
| The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is taking on the issue of 
| inadequate education for youth by extending its OpenCourseWare (OCW) program 
| to include secondary level students.  
`----

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9825103-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


OUP wants me to pay for my own Open Access article

,----[ Quote ]
| The journal wishes to charge me 48 USD to:
| 
|     * USE MY OWN ARTICLE
|     * ON WHICH I HOLD COPYRIGHT
|     * FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES (TEACHING)
| 
| The journal is therefore
| 
|     * SELLING MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
|     * WITHOUT MY PERMISSION
|     * AGAINST THE TERMS OF THE LICENCE (NO COMMERCIAL USE)
| 
| I am lost for words...
`----

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=529


A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free

,----[ Quote ]
| The domination of two legal research services over the publication of federal 
| and state court decisions is being challenged by an Internet gadfly who has 
| embarked on an ambitious project to make more than 10 million pages of case 
| law available free online.   
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/technology/20westlaw.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


Libraries Defend Open Access

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| In an open letter last month, Rockefeller University Press castigated the 
| publishers' sock-puppet outfit, PRISM, for using distorting rhetoric in a 
| coordinated PR attack on open access. N  
`----

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/1739235&from=rss

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